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A Winnipeg operation manager has been sentenced to astir 2 years of location apprehension and fined $50,000 aft pleading blameworthy to unauthorized employment of overseas nationals astatine a section operation site.
Gurwinder Singh Ahluwalia underpaid immoderate workers, brought others to Canada to enactment illegally
CBC News
· Posted: Apr 08, 2025 1:13 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago
A Winnipeg operation manager has been sentenced to astir 2 years of location apprehension and fined $50,000 aft pleading blameworthy to unauthorized employment of overseas nationals astatine a section operation site.
Gurwinder Singh Ahluwalia was charged nether the Immigration Refugee and Protection Act successful November, aft a national probe that started successful August 2023, prompted by a extremity astir the employment and mistreatment of unauthorized workers astatine the site, the Canada Border Service Agency said successful a quality merchandise connected Tuesday.
Investigators connected the lawsuit recovered paperwork and enactment licence applications linked to Ahluwalia, and successful May 2024 seized documents and physics devices, the quality merchandise said.
Those documents revealed Ahluwalia lured overseas nationals to Canada to enactment without permission, the merchandise said, and underpaid different workers who did person valid enactment permits.
The operation manager was charged successful November and pleaded blameworthy connected April 2. Ahluwalia's condemnation included a full of 20 months location arrest, the merchandise said.
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